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From: Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha <luciano@lsd.di.uminho.pt>
Subject: Re: convert time to UTC, strptime() returns -1 ?
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 23:28:30 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 09:40:44PM +0200, J. wrote:
>  if(strptime(tstr, "%a %b %d %T %Ey", &timestruct) == 0)
                                  ^^^^
You should use %Y, %y or %EY. For %Ey, the number is an offset from %EC,
that in my current locale is 1900.

So the year is ending up in 3903, beyond the 32/31 bit limit for the
number of seconds from Jan 1 1970.

Regards,
Luciano Rocha